Late Talking Toddler: New Research Debunks The Myth
July 14, 2006
New research findings from the world’s largest study predicting children’s late language emergence has revealed that parents are not to blame for late talking toddlers.
Seems as though a wide range of factors, some genetic, some environmental are the source of late talking. Boys are more likely to talk late than girls. A mother’s education and income had no bearing.
August 8, 2006 at 1:22 am
This is good to know. I have a son who is going on 5 and is not talking yet, and he’s been going to speech therapy since age 2. He understands just fine and he seems to have a really good memory…and I believe he can recognize words.
I’ve heard him say a few words and at 3 he started babbling a lot. Get him in front of a mirror and he’ll just babble like crazy.